Either he translates in his recitation for those present with him so that he can remember it, or he translates with his tongue so that he can hear it, and the other achieves hearing, as if the Qur’an was in his hand and he recited in it. The sight takes its right from looking at the word of God in terms of what is written, just as the hearing takes it in terms of what the tongue is, speaking and giving voice. Likewise, if he had placed the Qur’an in his lap and walked with his hand over the letters, these organs would have taken their share of that. This is how our sheikhs Abu Abdullah Ibn Al-Mujahid, Abu Abdullah Ibn Qaysum, and Abu Al-Hajjaj Al-Sharbli used to recite. I have not seen among our sheikhs anyone who preserved such recitation except these three.